Quality Control Supervisor

Our client, a global bus and truck Manufacturing Company in the Automotive sector is making its grand entrance in Kenya. They are seeking to recruit a quality control supervisor to join their team. The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 3 years proven experience as a quality control person in the automotive assembly industry. He/she will be required to define all quality procedures for local content products acceptance according to brand instructions, specifications and directives.

Key Responsibilities:

Support management in preparing, approving and updating a complete set of procedures.
Support management elaborating on a quality control plan suitable for automotive assembly.
Receiving complete sets of complete knocked down (CKD) orders and prepare inspection procedures.
Perform inspection to all complete knockdown (CKD) arrived in the assembly plant.
Define all quality procedures for local content products acceptance according to brand instructions.
Prepare the claim process concerning all incompliances detected in inspections.
Report incompliances on quality control aspects.
Make periodic tests and inspections of products specified in the quality control plan.
Use equipment in accordance with their instructions, clean up and maintain them.
Following the inspection on special tools in assembly line reporting all relevant incompliances.

Qualifications:

Must have a bachelor’s degree in Quality Management/Engineering or a relevant field.
Must have experience in the automotive assembly sector i.e. Heavy commercial Vehicles.
Must have complementary knowledge and experience in an HSQE environment.
Proven experience and knowledge in advanced Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Must have a driving license BCE.
Must be open to relocating to Thika.
Excellent communication skills, written and oral, in English.
Must be organized, pro-active and autonomous and enjoy teamwork.
Must have the capacity to lead a team.